error correction.

Detection and correction of errors in transmitted or stored information, often using deliberately added redundancy.

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Words that belong together

• error-correction coding
• an error-correction scheme
• error correction in memory

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Error correction recovered the first packet but could not restore the longer damaged sequence.

The memory’s error-correction log showed failures increasing near the overheated module.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.